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Use H4 (####) to define a card on a slide, laying them out side by side.

With more metadata, particularly with the style stuff, we should make the first slide better structured to hold it all.

Is this script available in python 3?

or add a second script with extension to use and edit it on iOS (Working Copy, Pythonista and Pyto)

Would like it on an image and also on a run of text.

• TODO:elaborate [Andreas,Martin]

• Create a Java Script based action to include other drafts and saving it as a [[title]].mdp in file location accessible by Pytho

Suggestion to add in def parseText(text):

    # Replace certain entity references with actual characters
    text2 = text2.replace("ä", "ä")
    text2 = text2.replace("Ä", "Ä")
    text2 = text2.replace("ü", "ü")
    text2 = text2.replace("Ü", "Ü")
    text2 = text2.replace("ö", "ö")
    text2 = text2.replace("Ö", "Ö")
    text2 = text2.replace("ß", "ß")
    text2 = text2.replace("€", "€")

Supporting SVG requires using CairoSVG to convert SVG to temporary PNG.

It would probably render better if CairoSVG was told the dimensions to aim for.

• TODO:elaborate [Andreas,Martin]

I'm using Mate 20.04 with python3.8 and earlier releases.

I had to use pip not pip3 for the install to work.

If I used pip3, I get the error when using md2pptx

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pptx'

For reference, here's some output

$ pip3 install python-pptx
Requirement already satisfied: python-pptx in /home/mikeg/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages (0.6.18)
Requirement already satisfied: lxml>=3.1.0 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from python-pptx) (4.5.0)
Requirement already satisfied: XlsxWriter>=0.5.7 in /home/mikeg/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from python-pptx) (1.3.7)
Requirement already satisfied: Pillow>=3.3.2 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from python-pptx) (7.0.0)
$ pip install python-pptx
Collecting python-pptx
  Using cached python-pptx-0.6.18.tar.gz (8.9 MB)
Requirement already satisfied: lxml>=3.1.0 in /home/mikeg/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from python-pptx) (4.4.1)
Requirement already satisfied: Pillow>=3.3.2 in /home/mikeg/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from python-pptx) (7.0.0)
Requirement already satisfied: XlsxWriter>=0.5.7 in /home/mikeg/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from python-pptx) (1.2.7)
Building wheels for collected packages: python-pptx
  Building wheel for python-pptx (setup.py) ... done
  Created wheel for python-pptx: filename=python_pptx-0.6.18-py3-none-any.whl size=275703 sha256=22b1ff963ef5599a2a7a0bed09e31b878c07b36854bb94e9124d4bcd09127559 
  Stored in directory: /home/mikeg/.cache/pip/wheels/68/99/55/8f6d0c128a214c26ac5b9f75ea68f6387feec407055458af1e
Successfully built python-pptx
Installing collected packages: python-pptx
Successfully installed python-pptx-0.6.18

Mucks up editing in e.g. BBEdit not having it.

Any more similar characters to backslash escape? Asterisk?

I'm more than happy to use inclusive language. "Template" is better than "master" in this regard.

Add example files for testing and learning how to use the features.

(Maybe even a combined one with mdpre)

Would allow assignment in an if statement - which would make regex usage more efficient in the standard input parsing code.

Hi Martin,
during Template Creation (modifying your "Martin Template.pptx" to my templates)
I have some questions that I do not understand.

If you have a quick idea its fine, but I will investigate the other stuff anyway.

• Font Overwrite: The font sometimes ignores the defined settings in the master-slide
• Text Position Overwrite in Heading Slide (Level ##): The textbox will be moved to your template position even if it takes my settings
• Table-Seperator still showing in pptx

Please close if this makes no sense to you

    # [Issue 9](https://github.com/MartinPacker/md2pptx/issues/9)
    if matchInfo == None:
        continue 
        # > NOTE: 
        # Traceback (most recent call last):
        # File "md2pptx", line 1997, in <module>
        #    name = matchInfo.group(1).strip()
        # AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

Issue contents

Default would be the same behaviour as today: To put the title above the card.

The code appears to be missing to do this.

Today we only support bulleted lists. It would be nice to support numbered lists.

It's actually pretty complex manipulation of the XML to do this - which is why I haven't done it until now.

Python3 moved exit to the sys module

Maybe allow vertical sizing dynamic metadata.

Today they are (defaulted to probable) black on (hardcoded) green.

It should be easy to make these changeable, perhaps at the slide level. That way you could intersperse green screens with other kinds of fixed-pitch, non-bulleted, presentation.

The use of a <span> with bgcolor would enable syntax colouring - with the colouring created by another tool, such as Codye on iOS.

add input file as a second command line parameter to support running on iOS.

sys.argv[2] would be ok.

typed parameters even better

md2pptx requires simulation of a Markdown table for more than 1 graphic on a slide. This isn't even compliant with Markdown tables - as the vertical bars would get rendered by other Markdown processors.

This got slightly relaxed a while back - with the terminating vertical bar on a line not being required. This makes editing a little easier.

In reality, though, the table mechanism isn't needed...

... Better to just notice 2 graphics side by side on a line. Likewise a second line with a graphic on.

While this will render differently with any other Markdown processor (I think), it will at least be acceptable.

I'm sure I uploaded the graphics that illustrate what happens when you specify a "chevron" Table Contents. They seem not to be pulled in - at least on Working Copy.

Example of the syntax:

### This Is A Title
<a id="my-id"></a>

This would be used sparingly, I think. Here is some example syntax:

<!-- md2pptx: card-height: 70% -->

Using HTML comments means other processors would ignore such an instruction.

CairoSVG - as an optional prereq - should make this possible.

Search order should be:

1. Same directory as the Markdown file.
2. Path reference - such as ~/md2pptx/templates.
3. md2pptx install directory.

If I have 1, 2, or 4 graphics on a slide they are appropriately positioned.

If I have 3 the third is placed under the first. It should be centered in the bottom half.

Probably as part of a Table Slide, bearing in mind the limitations of Markdown tables.

• TODO:elaborate [Andreas,Martin]

Could allow a mouse-over pop up. (It wouldn’t be rich unless we break Markdown compatibility.)

Maybe I was having a bad day but I couldn’t get hyperlinks to work. (They used to.)

Proper damage report soon. Maybe concurrent with the fix. :-)

Final card overlaps right hand edge of the slide.

I'm having a problem with a missing template "hipodz.pptx" and I can't find it on the webbernet.

Running

$ md2pptx test/cardTest.md /tmp/cardTest.pptx

md2pptx Markdown To Powerpoint Converter 1.8.1 10 February, 2021
================================================================
Open source project: https://github.com/MartinPacker/md2pptx

Metadata:
=========

Name                                     Value
----                                     -----
template                                 Martin Template.pptx
template                                 hipodz.pptx
cardlayout                               horizontal
baseTextSize                             20
CardColour                               BACKGROUND 2
CardTitlePosition                        inside
cardshadow                               yes
cardshape                                rounded

Template file hipodz.pptx does not exist. Terminating.

Commenting out the corresponding template line in cardTest.md fixes the problem.

slideMasterFile is checked for a path seperator (/) which is linux and macOS only.
Windows (winOS) sadly uses \.

Using the pathlib.Path object from standard library solves that issue completly.

if slideMasterFile != "":
    from pathlib import Path # move this to top of script obviusly
    if not Path(slideMasterFile).exits():
        # Slide master in same directory as md2pptx code
        script_path = Path(".")
        slideMasterFile = script_path / slideMasterFile
    print(f"\nUsing {slideMasterFile} as base for presentation")

Might not be an issue outside of span.

Steps:

• check for sys.argv[2] available
• set it as a path object
• check for exits
• load
• if no data was read > exit

#Line1856
output_file = sys.argv[1]

input_file = "" 
if len(sys.argv) > 2:
    from pathlib import Path # move this to front of script
    input_path = Path(sys.argv[2])
    if input_path.exists():
        with input_path.open() as file:
            input_file = file.readlines()
else: 
    input_file = sys.stdin.readlines()

if input_file == "":
    sys.exit(-1)

slideNumber = 1
```

Zero would lead to special considerations:

• How to separate card boundaries - as they're all the same colour.
• Whether cards should have curved corners - as that would look odd.

Maybe zero is really 0.05 inches or something like that.

Hi,
my template has a two row title layout.
I would love to set the first row to a text (like the section title)
and the second row to the slides title.

Would this be possible in the given structure of the md2pptx?

Right now it's a little haphazard. But functions to return rectangles would be good. Something like

titleRect = getTitleRect()

and

contentRect = getContentRect(titleRect)

In the latter case passing in None for titleRect sizes the content as if there were not title.

Not sure if Markdown supports this. md2pptx currently seems not to do this. Labeled as a bug because I think Markdown should support it and so should md2pptx